On Feb 23, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Jay Hart wrote:
I use bash as my shell.
I'm trying to set the bash prompt to display:
ttyC1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've created a .bashrc in the users home directory (in this case
root), and
used the following line:
PS1="\l [EMAIL PROTECTED] #"
So, what happens when you can't log in to the system, delete the bash
package or lose your /usr/local/ filesystem? I'd suggest not using
that as your root login shell.
When I login as root, or any other user for that matter, the default
prompt is:
-bash-3.2#
Try the system bashrc, or fire use .bash_profile.
the only way so far that I found to change the prompt is to type
'bash' at the
prompt after login. This is ok, but I know that this should work the
first
time I login, without having to issue a standalone command.
From the bash(1) 3.2 man page:
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as
a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first
reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if
that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for
~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that
order, and reads and executes commands from the first one
that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may
be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behav-
ior.
I've come to the conclusion that I need to modify another file
within the /etc
directory, but what?
So, what lead to that conclusion? Probably not the man page.
